From: jprocter Sequence Feature Settings Dialog Box Select View→Feature Settings... menu entry in
-an alignment window to open the feature settings dialog box, which
-allows you to precisely control the presence and appearance of
-sequence features for the current alignment. Select View→Feature Settings... menu entry
+in an alignment window to open the feature settings dialog box, which
+allows you to precisely control the presence and appearance of sequence
+features for the current alignment. The top section of the dialog box lists all the sequence feature
- groups, along with a tickbox for each that controls whether its
- features are displayed. The table in the middle lists all the
- features in the currently selected groups, along with their display
- colour and whether they are currently being displayed (only the
- ticked features and groups are displayed). You can change the
- colour used for a feature in the associated alignment by clicking on
- its colour box. Transparency and Feature Ordering
- It is important to realise that sequence features are often not
- distinct and often overlap (for example, a metal binding site
- feature may be attached to one position along a stretch of sequence
- marked with a secondary structure feature). The ordering of the sequence features in the dialog box list is the
- order used by jalview for rendering sequence features. A feature at
- the bottom of the list is rendered below a feature higher
- up in the list. The Optimise order button (currently only available in the application) will re-order the feature render ordering based on the average length of each feature type.
- The transparency slider setting (currently only available
- in the application version) controls the visibility of features
- rendered below other features. Reducing the transparency will mean
- that features at the top of the list can obscure features lower
- down, and increasing it allows the user to 'see through' the upper
- layers of a set of features. You can save all features, with their current colours and visibility
- in a Jalview format file.
-
- Sequence Feature
- Settings for the Jalview Application
+
+Sequence Feature Settings for the Jalview Application
You can change the order of a feature
- by dragging it up and down the list with the
- mouse.
Ordering alignment by features
+Right click on a feature type to order the alignment by either the
+feature's score, or the number of features of that type. The 'Order by
+Score' and 'Order by Density' buttons will order the alignnment based on
+the average score or total number of currently active features and
+groups on each sequence. (Experimental - added in jalview 2.4.1)
Transparency and Feature Ordering
+It is important to realise that sequence features are often not +distinct and often overlap (for example, a metal binding site feature +may be attached to one position along a stretch of sequence marked with +a secondary structure feature).
+The ordering of the sequence features in the dialog box list is
+the order used by jalview for rendering sequence features. A feature at
+the bottom of the list is rendered below a feature higher up in
+the list.
+You can change the order of a feature by
+dragging it up and down the list with the mouse.
The Optimise order button (currently +only available in the application) will re-order the feature render +ordering based on the average length of each feature type.
+The transparency slider setting +(currently only available in the application version) controls the +visibility of features rendered below other features. Reducing the +transparency will mean that features at the top of the list can obscure +features lower down, and increasing it allows the user to 'see through' +the upper layers of a set of features.
+You can save all features, with their +current colours and visibility in a Jalview format file.